: While his entire family is forced onto cattle cars bound for the Treblinka extermination camp, Szpilman is pulled from the line at the last second by a Jewish policeman who recognizes him.
: In the final months of the war, a starving and freezing Szpilman is discovered in a derelict house by a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld . Rather than killing him, Hosenfeld asks him to play the piano. Szpilman performs Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G minor . Moved by the music, the officer helps hide him and provides food until the Soviets liberate the city. Why It Resonates 12997-BR1080p-SUBS-THEPIANIST.mp4
The "deep story" is the harrowing, true-life account of , a brilliant Polish-Jewish pianist who survived the Holocaust in Warsaw. The Story of Survival : While his entire family is forced onto
: Alone and broken, Szpilman spends the rest of the war hiding in the ruins of the city. He moves from one abandoned apartment to another, aided by members of the Polish resistance, witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the later Warsaw Uprising from his windows. Szpilman performs Chopin’s Ballade No